Vadodara: The state-run power distributor Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Ltd (PGVCL) may have failed to send an ‘electricity thief’ to prison, but the court order has helped the company save Rs 9,000!. In a rare case, a judicial magistrate’s court in Rajkot turned Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Ltd’s (PGVCL) plea to send a slum dweller to civil prison for not paying electricity bill since he did not have any means of earning. The court of principal senior civil judge P N Navin rejected the plea as money could not be recovered from the man Jagubhai Meniya because he did not own anything. In a way, the court also saved the company’s money as it would have to pay an allowance of Rs 300 per day to keep Meniya in civil prison for a month for recovery of Rs 3,000 from him.